Hi @JacekPliszka,

Glad to see you in Github Community Forum!

Github repo wiki is actually a repo with named reponame.wiki, hence you can specify the wiki repo name to actions/checkout to checkout it. Code sample as below:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          repository: ${{github.repository}}.wiki    # specify the wiki repo name here.
  - name: check wiki repo content
    run: |
      ls -al
  - name: edit wiki
    run: |
      echo test >> test.md
  - name: Commit files
    run: |
      git config --local user.email "action@github.com"
      git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
      git add .
      git commit -m "Add changes"
  - name: Push changes to wiki repo
    uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
    with:
      repository: ${{github.repository}}.wiki    # specify the wiki repo and push the update.
      github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Please refer to my workflow for more details.

BTW, you can also search existing actions in markeplace here, for example, use action ‘SwiftDocOrg/github-wiki-publish-action@v1’ to publish content to wiki.

Hope it clear and helpful!

Thank you, I should’ve specified a bit more what I needed but with your suggestion it worked great.

What I needed is to have both base repo and wiki at the same time. But in addition to repository parameter there is path parameter so everything works great now.

Hi @JacekPliszka,

Thanks for your reply! Yes, you can use path parameter of actions/checkout to store base repo and wiki repo seperately. Glad to know it works for you and issue is gone.

Happy coding!

If I now understand this right, should the GITHUB_TOKEN have write access to the wiki, so that I could f.e. define it as the GH_PAT enviroment for the Decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action?

Hi @Andre601,

Yes, GITHUB_TOKEN has write access to the wiki. Decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action is a third-party action, you can use it with token to publish wikipages to the repository.

Hi @JacekPliszka,

Since the issue is resloved, could you please help to mark the answer? It could be helpful to other who has same queries. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

good to know,

However do I face the issue, that the action I use doesn’t work with the GITHUB_TOKEN secret, either because of how the action handles git actions or because of the repo being part of an organisation.
Do orgs have a different behaviour for wikis or should the same action work?

Hi @Andre601,

The action Decathlon/wiki-page-creator-action seems to handle the access as a remote repository which ‘GITHUB_TOKEN’ doesn’t work, have to use PAT secrets.

Actually in my example, you can find GITHUB_TOKEN can push update to wiki repo. You can follow it, submit your changes to wiki.

Thanks.